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Augie's nonconformity leads him into an eventful, humorous, and sometimes earthy way of life.

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Product Description: Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans’ social and cultural identities in post-Civil War South...read more

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Product Description: A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canonA signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success...read more

Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence in an uncaring world: he assists the down-trodden, loses his love, and fails to achieve worldly success. The novel asks a series of vital questions: what morality is possible in a complex commercial world? Does trying to maintain it make you a saint or a fool? Is sentiment merely a luxury for the leisured classes?

Experiencing an epiphany within the most daunting prison of the monstrous Lord Ruler who has enslaved his people for a thousand years, half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world. By the author of Elantris. Reprint.

Product Description: Failure. That's the way Kat would sum up her life if you asked her.The list is impressive: estranged family, two broken relationships. Kat's best friend checks them off one by one, and when Mary Margaret Martin has a point to make there's no stopping her...read more

Product Description: He's nameless, faceless, and has nothing left to lose—and now he has a gun. Alone except for his beloved bulldog, Churchill, a despondent man who's failed at his career, his marriage, and his own simple hopes makes his way across the fierce American landscape and the spectacle of his own bitter past...read more

Product Description: Winner of the 1965 National Book Award for Fiction. Herzog is a man seeking balance, trying to regain a foothold on his life. Thrown out of his ex-wife's house after his wife leaves him for his best friend, Herzog retreats to his abandoned home in a remote village in the Berkshire Mountains...read more

Galaxia Gutenberg. Barcelona. 2008. 22 cm. 450 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Bellow, Saul 1915-2005. Traducción de Vicente Campos. Traducción de: Herzog .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-672-3064-2 (Círculo de lectores); 978-84-81

Product Description: In The Music Teacher, a penetrating and richly entertaining look into the heart and mind of a woman who has failed both as an artist and as a wife, Barbara Hall, award-winning creator and writer of such hit television series as Judging Amy and Joan of Arcadia, tells the story of a violinist who has accepted the limitations of her talent and looks for the casual satisfaction of trying to instill her passion for music in others...read more

In a progressive novel first published in 1905, former Confederate war hero Colonel French returns to his impoverished Southern hometown after years as a successful businessman in the North and struggles to revitalize the community despite a corrupt system that re-enslaves many of the town's black residents. Reprint.

Product Description: Abe Pittenger, a young man holed up in a decrepit trailer in tiny Lockers Creek, Arkansas, considers himself a failure. He has bad knees, flat tires, a dying cat, and no plans. As incessant rain becomes a brutal storm and a flood claims the countryside, Abe meets a fierce young woman trying to start a new life...read more

His career guided by British culture and his Oxford education, Ceylon lawyer Sam Obeysekere tackles a scandal-ridden murder trial, mistakenly convinced that his reputation will shield him from the social unrest that the case has exposed. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

Product Description: A coming-of-age novel (about someone who forgot to come of age the first time) . . .Elle Medina must be qualified for something other than shopping and causing trouble, but when she moves to Santa Barbara after the disastrous end of her engagement, just what she's suited for isn't clear...read more

Product Description: "I screw things up sometimes." These words introduce us to one of the most intriquing, puzzling, and ultimately endearing characters in contemporary fiction - Walter Brimm - the protagonist of WALTER FALLS. Walter Brimm is a financial advisor in his mid-thirties, husband to Gee, a university professor, and father to a seven-year-old daughter, Rea...read more

Product Description: San Francisco’s underground unleashes a wild tempest of melancholy and psychodrama on an unsuspecting world. Poets, drag queens, performance artists, musicians, and strippers wander in and out of a yearlong hangover through seedy nightclubs, all-night basement parties, and unexpected revelations...read more

A septuagenarian reflects on his childhood relationship with his eccentric but talented tenor uncle, who took him in and humorously educated him in the ways of a gentleman after fleeing fascist Romania. By the author of Kitty & Virgil.

Product Description: On the day Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, he informs his wife, Janice, that their marriage is over and that the new fortune is his alone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, the Miller’s older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her hot actor boyfriend and is failing at her job, kind of spectacularly...read more

Encountering one another during a midweek service at Helen Harland's church, four very different characters struggle to define themselves in Los Angeles, dealing with extramarital affairs, romance, parenting, and the search for God. 25,000 first printing.